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Britain, New Zealand strike free trade deal

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London/Wellington | Reuters — Britain and New Zealand have reached agreement in principle on a free trade deal designed to reduce tariffs, improve services trade, and take London one step closer to membership in a broader trans-Pacific trade agreement. Prime ministers Boris Johnson and Jacinda Ardern sealed the deal in a Zoom call on Wednesday
U.K. tries to prevent pig cull by importing butchers
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U.K. tries to prevent pig cull by importing butchers

U.K. farmers say Brexit and COVID are the causes of the crunch

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London – Britain will try to avoid a mass cull of pigs by allowing trained butchers to come to work on temporary visas, Sky News reported on Oct. 14. The measures will include dropping a requirement for fluent English, Sky News said. A spokesman for Britain’s Agriculture Ministry declined to confirm or deny the report,
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Crops

CN CEO to retire as investor pressure weighs

Shareholder TCI has replacement in mind

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Reuters — Canadian National Railway (CN) said on Tuesday its CEO Jean-Jacques Ruest will retire at the end of January, following investor demands for his exit after the railroad operator’s failed bid for Kansas City Southern. TCI Fund Management, which owns five per cent of Canadian National, in August pitched former Jim Vena — a
“With a binding goal, we ensure that the agricultural sector delivers a historically high reduction... ” – Rasmus Prehn, Danish Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.
News

Danish farmers required to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030

The Nordic nation has some of the most ambitious targets in the world

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Denmark’s agricultural and forestry sector must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 per cent and 65 per cent by 2030 compared with 1990 levels, a majority in parliament agreed. The new legally binding target is part of the government’s action plan towards reaching 70 per cent reductions by 2030, one of the most ambitious climate goals
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Crops

More acres seen needed worldwide to meet mounting crops demand

U.S. acres may have already hit ceiling: AgResource chief

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Geneva | Reuters — Farmers need more space to grow crops to meet mounting demand for food and renewable fuel at a time of slowing growth in yields, consultancy AgResource said on Tuesday. A renewable fuel push under U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate agenda is set to trigger a boom in soyoil use, reinforcing a
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Deere’s U.S. workers on strike after rejecting deal

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Reuters — Thousands of Deere and Co. workers began a strike on Thursday, the United Auto Workers (UAW) said, days after overwhelmingly rejecting a six-year labour contract that was agreed on with the tractor maker. Earlier this month, the world’s largest farm equipment maker and the UAW union reached an agreement after weeks of negotiation
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Crops, Markets

Canada concerned about supply chain issues, watching ports ‘closely’

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Reuters –– Canada is concerned about the challenges facing global supply chains and is watching the country’s ports very closely, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Thursday. Freeland, speaking to reporters in Washington after meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, said she was broadly optimistic about the strength of Canada’s economic recovery
File photo from CNH-owned FPT Industrial’s Bourbon-Lancy engine manufacturing plant in eastern France. (Photo courtesy CNH Industrial)
Crops

CNH to temporarily shut several plants in Europe

Eight-day shutdown due to supply disruptions

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Reuters — Italian-American vehicle maker CNH Industrial said Wednesday it will temporarily shut several of its European agricultural, commercial vehicle and powertrain manufacturing facilities due to the disruptions of procurement of components, including semiconductors. The maker of farm machinery, Iveco commercial vehicles, construction equipment and powertrains plans to shut the concerned plants for eight working
Farmers arrive with blankets and mattresses for others at the site of a protest against farm laws at Ghaziabad, India on Jan. 29, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)
Crops

Son of India government minister arrested, accused of killing farmers

Junior home minister's son was 'not co-operating' in probe

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Lucknow | Reuters — Ashish Mishra, son of junior home minister Ajay Mishra Teni, has been arrested on accusations he ran over and killed four protesting farmers last week, a senior police official said. The farmers, killed on Oct. 3 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, were part of India’s longest-running agricultural protest, opposing

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